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TruQua Announces Alliance with BlackLine to Help Organizations Accelerate Finance Transformation Journey to Modern Accounting Practices

TruQua and BlackLine recently announced that they are deepening their alliance in order to help organizations that use SAP to modernize critical financial processes such as financial close, consolidation, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounting – all at different stages of the financial transformation journey. Since 2018, TruQua and BlackLine have worked together to modernize finance…
BlackLine and Kyriba Combine to Improve Financial Close Management

by Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, SAPinsider BlackLine partners with Kyriba to deliver greater cash visibility BlackLine Inc. and Kyriba, announced a new partnership to provide organizations with greater collaboration between Finance, Accounting, Treasury and Risk teams. The partnership offers mutual customers of their respective solutions, the capacity to accelerate bank connectivity and enhance cash visibility…....…
Accelerating the Financial Close Process: BlackLine Launches 5-Day Fast Track for Mid-Size Organizations

Finance leaders at mid-sized organizations are under increasing pressure. They face requests to enhance the efficiency of the financial close process, yet many have budget constraints that make it more difficult to leverage emerging technologies that can help in this area. BlackLine's recent announcement of their 5-Day Fast Track program seems to be in direct…
How to Automate and Streamline the Financial Close Process in Your SAP Systems

In this Q&A, experts provided tips and best practices for automating and streamlining the financial close process, including deep insight into suggested tools ways to leverage those tools for improved error management, faster data extraction, and greater efficiency. If you missed the chat or need a refresher, we welcome you to view the online chat…...…
- SAP Accounting
Upgrade Your Finance and Accounting Processes with BlackLine

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As the cost of labor rises, automation provides an inflationary hedge, allowing workers to perform tasks more efficiently. Companies have a certain number of transactions that they need to reconcile and align. This number is only going to keep growing as the company expands. Automation allows users to perform all necessary reconciliations in a fraction…
Clearing Open Items in SAP Systems: Q&A on Best Practices for Reconciliation and Automation

BlackLine’s Michael Gilmartin and Stephen Wolfman offer tips and best practices for reconciling open item accounts. If you missed the chat or need a refresher, you can view the chat replay or read the edited transcript below. Meet the panelists: Michael Gilmartin, Director, Solutions Consulting, BlackLine Stephen Wolfman, Director, Product Management, BlackLine Live Blog…...…
How Hubbell modernized global accounting processes with BlackLine

A long-time customer of SAP and BlackLine, Hubbell Incorporated. is an international manufacturer of high quality, reliable electrical products and utility solutions for a broad range of customer and end market applications. With SAP S/4HANA up and running as its ERP, Hubbell set out to further automate its financial close processes. Hubbell optimized its processes…
BlackLine & Central Finance: A sweet success for The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company initiated a finance transformation effort to enable its strategic initiatives. The project centered on moving to SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (cFIN), but a need was identified for additional solutions to address manual processes. Early on, Hershey implemented SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine to bring visibility, standardization, and control to its…
- SAP Finance
Managing Journals with BlackLine

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As the number and complexity of transactions escalate throughout a given quarter, manual processes struggle to keep pace. This can cause the process to stagnate and become inefficient, as well as introducing a higher risk of errors. Many Finance and Accounting teams at SAP organizations still use spreadsheets and emails to manage these tasks, which…
Make the move to modern accounting with BlackLine Solutions for SAP

Spreadsheets, disparate systems, and limited resources. In today’s uncertain economy Accounting is called to provide more real-time information and to do more with less. But their traditional manual processes are standing in the way .Many F&A leaders are using disruption as a catalyst for change. Controllers are turning to cloud technology like BlackLine’s solutions for…